Backlink Building

[theonemanyuri]

Although I haven't been at it long, I really enjoy designing sites, finding good domains, building the site and to a lesser extent doing SEO. The one part that bores me stupid is building backlinks!

Can we get some sort of guide going as has been done in other parts of the forum where some of you old hands share any tips and tricks to building good quality links in as little time as possible..?

I understand people aren't going to want to share all their techniques and some of you charge for your SEO knowledge but anything more general that you don't mind sharing?

 

[jj1]

I haven't actually done this myself, but I know some web designers outsource a lot of linkbuilding work - eg pay for directory links, articles, sb etc.

Am not sure whether Google would frown on/penalise this paid backlink service???

 

[theonemanyuri]

This is exactly the sort of thing i would like to know, how does Google react to different forms of backlink building, is it always dodgy to automate the process or are there some ways which it's ok ,etc...

Pretty disappointed by the lack of responses as it's a pretty vital part of web development

 

[ratboy]

I can highly recommend this: http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/search-engine-optimisation/74653-review-unique-article-wizard.html

Working a treat for me.

 

[theonemanyuri]

Cheers dude I'll check it out

 

[DomainManagement]

Careful

You have to watch out for things like link velocity etc etc

yep press release`s are great but you have to plan them

etc etc


if you fancy testing me out you can give me a keyword and i will give it a go

for free but not a stupidly difficult one then if you like what you see

then you will hire me .

Best regards steve

 

[vizzo]

Getting links is boring, hard work. But it has to be done.

I go for a multi-pronged attack (in no particualr order):

1. Submit to general directories. I find most of little value but the scattergun approach (submit to ten directories and hopefully one or two will be worthwhile) seems to work.

2. See if there are directories relevant to my niche and submit to them

3. Have a blog at blogger.com and link to my own site

4. Submit worthwhile comments at other blogs that are relevant to my site, including a link

5. Find relevant sites in my niche and email the owner and ask for a reciprocal link. I don't go with automated emailers for this - I send an individual email to the website owner

6. Find a site similar to mine with lots of backlinks and then visit those sites and get a backlink to me. This is good as a) if they're willing to link to my cometitor, they'll probably link to me b) I know that backlinks from their site are picked up by the search engines.

6. Write articles - not too many - and submit to ezinearticles, articlealley etc

7. Setup a squidoo account and make a lens

8. Use links in signature on forums

I personally have never paid for a link, but then that's just me - maybe I should! I've also never bothered with using socialnetwork sites other than squidoo.

 

[vizzo]

Oh and then there's what i don't do...

1. As mentioned before I don't pay for links

2. Use "we will submit your site to a gazillion websites" services

3. Get articles written by other people. I'm sure there are some good article writers, but many are rubbish - no direspect to any article writers here.

4. Reply to automated link requests

5. Three way links unless it's someone i know and/or trust

6. Particpate in link farm exchanges and webrings

7. Link excessively between my sites. Some would say you should never do it - I do a bit

 

[theonemanyuri]

Cheers guys. At the moment I haven't made enough money to cover what I've spent on domains, so I'm not really inclined to spend any money til that point. I probably couldn't compete with the rate of article posting as a program but as a few of my domains are all on similar topics I could get articles rewritten fairly quickly if I was systematic about it, I'll try and do a few now.

Very in-depth Vizzo, I take a similar approach to you at the moment although i suspect with less effort. I don't use squidoo though or blogger.com but i will check both of these out, I'm also going to get involved in this twitter business soon i think. I currently get links on facebook, not sure how much it does but for a 5 second job it can't do any harm.

Using my storebursts as a comparison, it's amazing the difference in income from a site that fluttters between no1 to no3 on google to a site on the second page... if all my stores ranked so highly I could see a tidy income.

 

[springer]

Don't spend too long on blog commenting. As mentioned recently by a member on another forum, you could waste 15 minutes writing a quality comment for a spammer to come along the next day with the result possibly being that all comment links are changed to nofollow, removed or penalised by Google.

Writing for article sites can be a good tactic. But consider where your articles are going to be republished - typically spammy wordpress sites and auto-blogs.

 

[rob]

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